listings: San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 1972, p. 61, billing Jerry Garcia - Merl Saunders |San Francisco Examiner, June 29, 1972, p. 33, billing Jerry Garcia and Merle [sic] Saunders and Friends
Historical
The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.